Swaffham
Swaffham is covered by postcode district PE37. It is in the Breckland council area, Norfolk.
Every postcode in Swaffham, by gigabit broadband
- No home or business can get gigabit: 50
- Some can get gigabit: 67
- Every home and business can get gigabit: 160
- Ofcom gives no figure: 4
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together
Of the 281 postcodes in Swaffham that ONS places, 50 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 67 have some that can, 160 can all get it and 4 have no Ofcom figure.
Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 52.6441, longitude 0.6901. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre.
Postcodes without gigabit
50 postcodes here have no gigabit. These are the 12 first in postcode order.
Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together
What is it like to live in Swaffham?
Homes sold for a typical £240,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 160 of the 277 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. None of its 281 postcodes is on the Environment Agency's list of those with a home or business at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. It has 3 primary schools, 1 secondary school and 1 all-through school at its postcodes. 3 GP practices are at its postcodes.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.
What do homes cost in Swaffham?
Homes in Swaffham sold for a typical £240,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 131 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £245,000 from 186 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £318,750 64 sales
- Semi-detached £220,000 43 sales
- Terraced £166,500 20 sales
- Flat or maisonette 4 sales, too few to price
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole PE37 district, Swaffham's main postcode district: a typical £260,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Swaffham: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
Are new homes being built in Swaffham?
30 of the 281 postcodes now in use in Swaffham came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 27 of the 186 homes sold in Swaffham were newly built (15%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the PE37 district, 22%.
The newest postcodes
A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.
New homes among the homes sold
| Period | In Swaffham | Across the PE37 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 1 of 131 (Under 1%) | 2 of 176 (1%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 27 of 186 (15%) | 61 of 275 (22%) |
Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Swaffham?
Ofcom reports on 277 of the 281 postcodes in Swaffham. At 160 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.
Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is Swaffham at risk of flooding?
None of the 281 postcodes in Swaffham is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.
Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.
Source: Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026.
Which schools are in Swaffham?
The open schools at the postcodes in Swaffham. A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.
Primary
An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).
Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UKSource: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.
Which GP surgeries are in Swaffham?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Swaffham. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Campingland Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report January 2020, over 3 years old · Phone 01760 721211 250 mWalk
- Manor Farm Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report March 2024 · Phone 01760 721786 500 mWalk
- Plowright Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01760 722797 1.2 kmCycle
Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.
Find a GP on the NHS websiteSources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is Swaffham safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 668 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Swaffham over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.
Each month, September 2025 to August 2026
- 67 September 2025
- 52 October 2025
- 63 November 2025
- 41 December 2025
- 40 January 2026
- 59 February 2026
- 51 March 2026
- 48 April 2026
- 58 May 2026
- 68 June 2026
- 65 July 2026
- 56 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: vehicle crime 14, burglary 11, possession of weapons 4, theft from the person 2, bicycle theft 1, robbery 1.
Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.
Crime around one postcodeSource: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.
Who runs Swaffham?
- District, borough or city council
- Breckland
- County council
- Norfolk
- Parliamentary constituency
- South West Norfolk
- Police force area
- Norfolk
- Region
- East of England
- Country
- England
- MP
- Terry Jermy (Labour)
All 281 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.
Moving to Swaffham
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.
- Tell Breckland about council tax Council tax, on angliarevenues.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Swaffham
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Find your rubbish collection day on GOV.UK
Swaffham postcodes
281 postcodes in use in Swaffham, by district:
That district is in the PE postcode area.
Check a Swaffham postcode
Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.
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Places near Swaffham
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Swaffham's £240,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Swaffham
- What is the postcode for Swaffham?
- Postcode district PE37, with 281 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- Which council is Swaffham in?
- Breckland, with Norfolk as its county council. Source: ONS.
- Who is the MP for Swaffham?
- Terry Jermy (Labour), for South West Norfolk. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
- How much are houses in Swaffham?
- A typical £240,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 131 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Swaffham?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include Heartwood CofE VC Primary & Nursery School, Swaffham CofE Primary Academy and Swaffham Meadow Primary School; secondary schools at its postcodes include The Nicholas Hamond Academy and OneSchool Global UK - Swaffham Campus. Source: Department for Education.
- What broadband can you get in Swaffham?
- Ofcom reports on 277 of the 281 postcodes in Swaffham. At 160 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
- Is Swaffham at risk of flooding?
- None of the 281 postcodes in Swaffham is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Swaffham?
- 30 of the 281 postcodes now in use in Swaffham came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 27 of the 186 homes sold in Swaffham were newly built (15%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the PE37 district, 22%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Environment Agency flood risk
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools
- NHS England: NHS GP practices
- Care Quality Commission
- data.police.uk: police.uk
- UK Parliament
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This uses Care Quality Commission information. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.
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